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Read-only Lightroom Classic plug-in

Catalog Check by Emulyn

Show bounded read-only virtual-copy observations for the photos explicitly selected in Lightroom Classic.

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Who it is for

Photographers and studios who want a quick, read-only view of virtual-copy availability in a selected Lightroom scope.

The workaround it improves

Manually inspecting selected photos and their virtual-copy state one at a time.

Product proof

Interface and demonstration assets

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Exact product contract

Inputs, outputs, reads, and writes

Every Emulyn product keeps its own boundary.

Supported inputs

  • Current target photo and explicitly selected Lightroom Classic photo objects, up to 1,000 photos

Produced outputs

  • On-screen aggregate virtual-copy counts and availability states

What it reads

  • The documented isVirtualCopy and countVirtualCopies observations for selected photo objects

What it writes or changes

  • No catalog metadata, report-file, preference, or original-file change

Local, catalog, file, and network behavior

Nothing important stays implied.

Catalog read
Uses documented Lightroom Classic SDK observations only.
Catalog write
Read-only; no catalog write is authorized.
Direct .lrcat access
Never
File creation
Creates no report or customer file.
Network
No catalog records, filenames, paths, or job data are uploaded.
Privacy
Only aggregate counts and fixed availability states reach the dialog; names, identifiers, and paths are not displayed or persisted.
Exceptions and ambiguity
Unavailable SDK observations are labeled unavailable rather than inferred.
Recovery
The product is read-only; no catalog rollback is required.

What it checks, creates, or changes

  • Selected-photo count
  • Observed and unavailable isVirtualCopy states
  • Observed and unavailable countVirtualCopies states
  • Aggregate virtual-copy count
  • No-selection, unavailable-observation, and over-limit states

What it deliberately does not do

  • Open a .lrcat database directly
  • Repair or reorganize the catalog
  • Scan the whole catalog
  • Change collection membership or synchronization
  • Assess missing originals, offline volumes, duplicate paths, collections, keywords, sequences, catalog integrity, catalog health, completeness, or backup state
  • Persist or export a report

Exact compatibility

Tested rows only.

Compatibility policy
No public compatibility row is authorized yet.

Private engineering evidence does not become a public support claim until the exact product, host, OS, architecture, and release row pass review.

Known limitations

What still has to be true.

  • The exact beta3 package is selection-summary-only and does not include keyword, collection, or sequence modules.
  • Only publicly authorized compatibility rows may appear as supported.

Installation

A Lightroom Classic plug-in installation guide will accompany the exact authorized package.

Update policy

Proposed one-time major-version license with 12 months of maintenance; legal review remains required.

Policy language remains subject to legal review before public activation.

Frequently asked questions

Clear answers before checkout.

Does Catalog Check repair my catalog?

No. The exact beta3 candidate only shows bounded read-only virtual-copy observations for the current selected scope.

Support and release

Private beta means exactly that.

Review licenses, affiliate eligibility, checkout, download, sitemap indexing, and structured product data remain disabled until this product’s release gate passes.

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The exact beta3 candidate reports selected-scope aggregate virtual-copy observations only. Emulyn is independent from Adobe and is not endorsed, sponsored, or certified by Adobe.